Understanding the Clinical Heterogeneity of Major Depression Using Family Data

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1986, Pages 430-434

  Weissman, Myrna M ^a   Merikangas, Kathleen R ^a   Priya, Wickramaratne ^a,c   Kidd, Kenneth K ^a   Prusoff, Brigitte A ^a   Leckman, James F ^a,b   Pauls, David L ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c The MacArthur Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FAMILY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RISK; SUICIDE;

EID: 0022470365     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1986.01800050028003     Document Type: Article

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